vitellarium

From New Latin, from vitellus (“yolk”) + -ārium (“place associated with”); equivalent to vitello- + -arium.

In the hymenolepid cestode Fimbriaria fasciolaris, the vitellaria and uterus are continuous throughout the strobila.

1988, K. G. Adiyodi, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Accessory Sex Glands, page 41:

Germarium and vitellarium are distinct and the latter contains one or two small, immature basal oocytes.

2015 July 8, “Convergent Reduction of Ovariole Number Associated with Subterranean Life in Beetles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A type of gland, in flatworms and similar organisms, that secretes yolk.


postpetiole

Moreover, the beetle uses a row of scrapers (placed on the proximal abdominal segment) (Fig 1, 1B3 and 1B4 ) rather than the single scraper (placed on the postpetiole, i.e. the third abdominal tergite) used by the ant (Fig 1, 1A3 and 1A4 ).

2015 July 9, “The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(anatomy, entomology) The second segment of the pedicel of some ants.


dead man's fingers

Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:


sarothrum

/səˈɹɑθ.ɹəm/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάρωτρον (sárōtron, “a broom”).

bor

Any of the stiff hairs on a bee that collect pollen.


manseng

But gros manseng’s sibling, petit manseng, is the real star, adding still more depth and intensity of tropical fruit to a wine such as Château de Cabidos Petit Manseng Sec Cuvée Comte Philippe 2009 (£15.95, South Downs Cellars ).

2015 August 16, David Williams, “Wines from the southwest of France”, in The Observer:

Any of several grape varieties and associated wines from southwest France


middle leg

/ˈmɪdəl ˈlɛɡ/

(entomology) one of a leg in an arthropod that has three pairs thereof (e.g. butterflies, bees)


deflea

en-verb

deflea (third-person singular simple present defleas, present participle defleaing, simple past and past participle defleaed or deflead)

defleas (present singular third-person)
defleaing (participle present)
defleaed (participle past)
defleaed (past)
deflead (participle past)
deflead (past)

I had to deflea our cat with a flea comb, even though it wears a flea collar.

The DDT powder does not kill the rats; it merely defleas them and lessens the likelihood of the spread of typhus fever from rat to man.

1948, University of Florida Publications in Experimental Applied Economics, volume 3, page 124:

A fine metal flea comb is an added aid in defleaing a cat, especially if you are the type who gains satisfaction from “cracking” fleas caught in the comb, or from trying to drown them in a glass of water!

1969, Elizabeth Charles, How to Keep Your Pet Healthy, page 99:

She cares personally for her dogs, feeds them, defleas them, shouts crossly at them when they misbehave.

1977, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 8, page 57:

House, kennels, bedding, runs, all have to be defleaed, as well as the dogs. Note: If the dogs have to be wormed, it is wise to postpone any defleaing efforts for three weeks after worming.

1986, Pure-bred Dogs American Kennel Gazette, volume 103, page 95:

I had my own dog, but I also caught every stray dog in the neighborhood, washed and defleaed it, and anointed it with cologne (causing a great rumpus when discovered by one of my sisters from whom the cheap scent had been appropriated).

1989, Stuart Brent, Seven Stairs: An Adventure of the Heart, page 132:

I can get her defleaed. That wouldn't be a problem. I can pay for it now that I've got an after-school job. And Mom's a sucker for strays.

2009, Louis de Bernières, The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes, [originally published in 2009, Notwithstanding], Storycuts, 2011, unnumbered page,
She sits in her armchair, and, one by one, she defleas her cats.


squeeze box

squeeze boxes (plural)
squeezebox (alternative)

Jebby rushed to the area behind the mare's paddock. What he saw there filled him with fresh concern. Isabella was in the "squeeze box." This, he knew, was a strait jacket for animals! […] He had seen the old squeeze box sitting in the field behind the hoofed animals' paddock. Zoo keepers had used it in the days before the invention of the Tranquilizer Gun for immobilizing animals when they wanted to inoculate them or treat them for illness or injury. If the squeeze box were used unwisely, a Zoo keeper had told Jebby, an animal inside it could be squeezed almost to death. And it always caused panic as the wooden sides pressed against the trapped creature's body.

1963, Ann Cottrell Free, Forever the Wild Mare, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC:

Williams and Sawyer (1995) reported on successful techniques used on a large number of otters in the rehabilitation centers during the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Restraint equipment included heavy leather welder's gloves with long sleeves, a large salmon dip net fitted with an elongated bag of soft 1-in. mesh net, a throw net, blankets, stuff bags, and some sort of squeeze box. […] The bag is quickly placed over the head, shoulders, and thorax, and the otter is held by pressing down on the bag. This is best accomplished while the otter is in the net or squeeze box with the animal on its back and the hind legs held by a second handler[…].

2001, Pamela Tuomi, “Sea Otters”, in Leslie A. Dierauf, Frances M. D. Gulland, editors, CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease, and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 972:

Snakes and beaded lizards can be measured effectively in a "squeeze box" (Quinn and Jones 1974). A squeeze box immobilizes an animal by pressing it between a transparent lid and a soft foam bottom. Squeeze boxes have diverse designs[…], but basically, they are all modifications of the original described by Quinn and Jones (1974).

2012, Mercedes S. Foster, “Dealing with Live Reptiles”, in Roy W. McDiarmid et al., editors, Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 132:

Physical restraint devices (e.g., rabbit squeezeboxes and cat bags) are a useful adjunct to anesthesia, particularly in the induction period. Restrained rabbits quickly develop hyperthermia, however, especially when environmental temperatures are high. Physical restraint of free-living rabbits and hares should be minimal.

2014, Darryl Heard, “Lagomorphs (Rabbits, Hares, and Pikas)”, in Gary [Don] West, Darryl [J.] Heard, Nigel Caulkett, editors, Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia, 2nd edition, Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 879:

(veterinary medicine) A container that fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.


Garganega

A variety of Italian white wine grape widely grown in the Veneto region.


Arbane

arbanne (alternative)
Arbanne (alternative)


vermentino

It’s made from vermentino, a white grape that flourishes across the Mediterranean thanks to its ability to soak up heat without losing its acidic zip and bite, and here is rooted on the border of Liguria and Tuscany south of Genoa.

2015 October 25, David Williams, “Three wines to enjoy with Italian food”, in The Observer:


snuff bottle

A bottle used by the Chinese during the Qing dynasty to hold powdered tobacco.


djamba

However, the coagulated, musky, sickly smell of djamba overwhelmed all other odours. […] The four small parcels of djamba were included in our order. […] He winked at us knowingly as he dragged on the huge, glowing wrap of djamba in his mouth.

2013, Roland Charley, Dead End Poverty, Author House, →ISBN, page 311:


African horse sickness

A potentially fatal infection of horses and other equids caused by a virus in the genus Orbivirus, transmitted mostly by a biting midge, Culicoides imicola, and originally from Sub-Saharan Africa.


viniculturist

A person who practices viniculture; a viticulturist specifically involved in wine production.


preatrium

Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium well developed, almost as long as shaft, shaft slender, tubular, straight, diverging from line of preatrium about 30°, with membranous flanges on dorsal side variable in shape, dorsoatrium absent but with pair of ligaments connecting to anal tube laterally, in ventral view aedeagus shaft and preatrium nearly broadened at atrium, gonopore apical (Figs 4C, 4F–4I, 5A and 5G–5I ).

2015 October 1, “Clarification of the Identity of the Tea Green Leafhopper Based on Morphological Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Specimens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The region in front of the atrium (in gastropods)


snicklefritz

snicklefritzes (plural)
schnickelfritz (alternative)
schnicklefritz (alternative)
snickelfritz (alternative)

From German or Pennsylvania German, related to German Schnickschnack (“chatter”) (see schnacken, *schnicken) + -el + Fritz (a nickname derived from Friedrich), thus probably originally denoting someone chatty or impulsive.

"Them snicklefritzes sponge on their mamas and daddies long after they leave the nest." […] "Let's see what that snicklefritz will do when he sees this," he said.

1972, Harold Keith, The bluejay boarders, →ISBN, pages 102 and 192:

"Hello, snicklefritz," Dr. Nelson said as he let down the crib rail. "That's some shiner you've got there." With slow and gentle movements he proceeded to peer into Danny's eyes.

1997, Jane Toombs, Nobody's Baby, →ISBN, page 153:

“But that doesn't mean—” “Besides, you could use a father for little snicklefritz there.”

2011, Karen Templeton, Marriage, Interrupted, →ISBN:

(US, dialectal, especially Pennsylvania) A child, especially a mischievous one; especially as a nickname or term of endearment, or exasperation. Alternative letter-case form of Snicklefritz.


cleithrum

From Ancient Greek κλεῖθρον (kleîthron).

The secondary arch consists of four pieces of bone, the posttemporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and postcleithrum.[…]The cleithrum is the largest piece and the other elements are attached to it.

1993, J. J. Videler, Fish Swimming, Springer, page 66:

The main components of which are, from dorsal to ventral, the post-temporal, supracleithrum, cleithrum and the postcleithra.[…]The cleithra of either side of the body are connected with the pharyngeal jaw apparatus and with the urohyal by the bilateral pharyngocleithralis musculature and the median sternohyoideus muscle.

2000, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, “Chapter 6: The Skeletal System”, in Gary Kent Ostrander, editor, The Laboratory Fish, Academic Press, page 116:

In Ichthyostega (Figs 5.2, 5.11), Acanthostega (Fig. 5.20), and also in Hynerpeton (Fig. 5.28C, D) and Ventastega, the cleithrum was relatively reduced, though it was still a substantial dorsally extensive blade.

2012, Jennifer A. Clack, Gaining Ground: The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods, 2nd edition, Indiana University Press, page 212:

(ichthyology) A large bone in fishes, which extends upward from the base of the pectoral fin and anchors to the cranium above the gills, forming the posterior edge of the gill chamber.


hardware disease

From the fact that in cattle it is usually caused by hardware such as a piece of wire or a fastener (e.g., fence wire, nail, screw).

(animal husbandry, veterinary medicine) Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock usually a metal object such as wire or a fastener); in cattle it usually includes reticuloperitonitis and thus in practice is usually metonymically synonymous with traumatic reticuloperitonitis.


wake and bake

wake and bake (third-person singular simple present wakes and bakes, present participle waking and baking, simple past woke and baked, past participle woken and baked)

wakes and bakes (present singular third-person)
waking and baking (participle present)
woke and baked (past)
woken and baked (participle past)
wake 'n bake (alternative)

Fearn’s weakness was marijuana: “I used to smoke so much, I would wake and bake, I would smoke straight after stage, tons and tons.”

2023 March 5, Miranda Sawyer, quoting Andrew Fearn, “Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang, intransitive) To smoke marijuana soon after waking up.


haircap

Any of various mosses of the family Polytrichaceae.


Filter-avoidance spelling of weed (“marijuana”).


Weed Day

From weed being slang for cannabis, and the number 420 being associated with the consumption of marijuana, with the date 4/20 being of similar pronunciation.

(US) April 20th of any year, regarded informally as a time to celebrate marijuana consumption.


bulbus glandis

From Latin bulbus ("bulb") + glandis ("acorn").

der

An erectile tissue structure on the penis of canid mammals and some pinnipeds, which swells up and locks inside the female during sexual intercourse.


white line disease

Synonym of seedy toe (disease of a horse's foot)


hyoidal

(anatomy, zootomy, relational) Synonym of hyoid.


bifter

Just the racket of crickets / And this packet of biscuits / Some flat-out big riffs / And a fat lemon bifter

2011, “Roof Of Your Car”, in Computers and Blues, performed by The Streets:


mare's teat

Incidentally, a famous wine grape brought in from the Silk Road, still being used to make wine in the Northwest, is called mare's teat (perhaps because of its shape); because in Chinese the same word is used for both "teat" and "milk," it is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English as "kumiss grape."

1999, Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, Asian Foods: Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 391:

They also carried the special mare's teat grapes from the oasis of Khocho (packed in ice in lead containers) and sold luxury goods from the west to the Chinese: Sassanian silverware from Persia which had a huge influence on Chinese silverwork, glass vessels and beads from Syria and Babylon, amber from the Baltic, Mediterranean coral, brass for Buddhist images, and purple woollen cloth from Rome.

2004, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, →ISBN, page 67:

I partied at Aksu until they began to tire of me and started asking whether I wouldn't prefer to pay for my mare's teat grape wine.

2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, →ISBN:

“I have not tasted mare's teat wine in more than two years,” he said. “I should be honoured to be your guest. Shall we invite the prefect to join us?”

'Excellent!' he exclaimed. 'The finest sweet wine, made from the best mare's teat grapes in Kocho - a valued ally in these troubled times.'

2011, Peter Ward, Dragon Horse, →ISBN, page 51:

A variety of wine grape from the Central Asian oases with distinctively shaped, brownish-purple fruit.


Trousseau

From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”), possibly from the fact that the grapes in each bunch appear tightly packed together.

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

A variety of red wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera originating in eastern France which is often used in port wine; Bastardo.


dairy cow

The Holstein Friesian is an excellent dairy cow. [breed]

He runs a herd of dairy cows, including his own bulls. [cattle beast]

Mastitis impairs a dairy cow’s output. [lactating female]

Any breed of cow bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made; an individual cattle beast of such a breed; especially, a female cow who has calved and lactated.


ammonitella

The embryonic stage, consisting of a small ellipsoid protoconch and ammonitella, ends at about 0.6 mm.

2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Sure, ammonoid shells as a whole got progressively more coiled over the Devonian. But so did the tiniest part of each ammonoid shell, the ammonitella.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 61:

The initial part of a spiral shell, originating from a central chamber, in ammonoid molluscs


Verdelho

A white wine grape grown throughout Portugal, especially on the island of Madeira.

A kind of Madeira wine made with this grape.


white grape

Any variety of grape with a greenish or whitish color.

fehérszőlő

variety of grapes with a greenish or whitish color


BAR

en-adj

BAR (comparative more BAR, superlative most BAR)

more BAR (comparative)
most BAR (superlative)

Coordinate term: ADR

Anytime you notice your horse is ADR instead of BAR, it's time to get on the phone to your vet.

2018, Kendra Gale, The Big Book of Miniature Horses, Trafalgar Square Books, →ISBN:

(veterinary medicine, slang) Acronym of bright, alert, responsive.


procercus

MR-13 exhibits six setae on each procercus and bifid S III setae on the labrum (Fig 2 ), the former feature suggests that this specimen should belong to the dampfi group while the latter suggests its ascription to the zernyi-cinerella groups.

2016 March 4, “Integrated Taxonomy and DNA Barcoding of Alpine Midges (Diptera: Chironomidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A short structure from which cerci develop


sciacarello

A red wine grape variety grown in Corsica


theriatrics

From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “wild beast”) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”).

(archaic) The science of medicine involving animals such as veterinary medicine or the treatment of animal bites.


miller's grape

From the powdery white appearance of the leaves, as if covered in flour.

A hardy grape variety, cultivated in Burgundy for making wine.


stichosome

A multicellular organ, very prominent in some stages of nematodes, consisting of a longitudinal series of stichocytes, and believed to be a secretory gland and storage organ.


haanepoot

A kind of large, fleshy South African grape.


pretelson

The pretelson does not expand laterally and there is no evidence of an attachment point for cercal blades; this, combined with their absence in the material, indicates that such structures were lacking.

2015 September 1, James C. Lamsdell et al., “The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology, volume 15, →DOI:


epiphallus

Hadrotettix and Heliastus lack pale streaks but possess trilobed epiphalli, which led me to look for other characteristics shared with the Hippiscus group.

1981, Daniel Otte, The North American Grasshoppers: Acrididae: Oedipodinae, page 92:

In some orthopterans, a plate adjacent to the genital complex.

Male genitalia strongly asymmetrical, partially concealed by sternum 9, comprised by basisclerite, paired epiphalli (left with titillator), and hypophallus; hook process (=L3 sclerite after MCKITTRICK 1964) missing (KLASS 1997).

2006, A.P. Rasnitsyn, History of Insects, page 274:

In some dictyopterans, a pair of valves adjacent to the phallus.

In mature Arion the atrium is divided into upper and lower atria, with the oviduct, spermatheca duct and epiphallus opening into the upper atrium.

2012, A. South, Terrestrial Slugs: Biology, ecology and control, page 110:

(malacology) In some gastropods, an enlargement of the vas deferens that continues beyond the apex of the penis.


phattie

Alternative spelling of fatty (“large marijuana cigar”)


vonce

en-noun

vonce (countable and uncountable, plural vonces)

Borrowed from Yiddish וואַנץ (vants, “bedbug”), by analogy to the English slang term roach. Attested since the 1950s.

(US, slang) Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.


self-sucker

It is worth while, therefore, to treat the self-suckers while they are giving milk.

1886, The American Agriculturist, volume 45, page 54:

It is generally the best cows that are self-suckers, the habit being due to the extreme pressure of milk causing pain.

1901, The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, volume 18, page 31:

Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers.

1913, The Breeder's Gazette, Farm Buildings, page 310:

(dated) A female farm animal which drinks its own milk.


stud horse

stud horses (plural)
studhorse (alternative)

From Middle English *studhors, *stode-hors, from Old English stōdhors, from Proto-West Germanic *stōdahross, equivalent to stud + horse. Cognate with Middle High German stuotros. Compare German Stutpferd.

A stallion; a male horse kept as a stud.


moof

What was thought […] to be smoke coming from a badly tuned engine was in reality a pot burning moof!

2014, Frank B. Thompson, III, WTF!: This is a Liberal Utopia!:

(slang) A bong (vessel for smoking marijuana).


HTP

HTP (countable and uncountable, plural HTPs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of hydroxytryptophan.

high-test peroxide
high-test peroxide#English

(inorganic chemistry) Initialism of high-test peroxide.


keb

en-verb

keb (third-person singular simple present kebs, present participle kebbing, simple past and past participle kebbed)

kebs (present singular third-person)
kebbing (participle present)
kebbed (participle past)
kebbed (past)

(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.


she-walrus

en-noun

she-walrus (plural she-walruses or she-walrus)

she-walruses (plural)
she-walrus (plural)

The advice given always consists of certain things that the one threatened must not do, rules of conduct that coincide with the various ones before mentioned ; or also, a dietary may be prescribed, such, for instance, as that the person must not eat he-walrus and only certain portions of the she-walrus ; that all his food must be boiled, and so on.

1908, Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north; a record, page 153:

Charlie Slowokok told us about the she-walrus's love for her young. On one occasion he had watched a she-walrus from a distance hugging her offspring between her fore-fins, breast feeding it and playing with it afterwards.

1964, Sven Gillsäter, Wave After Wave, page 70:

One day they joined some other kayakers, and went in pursuit of a very large she-walrus. Kunuk lanced it four times at a greater distance than usual, and his arrow went right through the animal, which, panting for breath, after a minute or two was quite dead.

2014, Hinrich Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, page 139:


Monday morning disease

From the fact that this disease is triggered by excessive exercise after long periods of rest, e.g. on a Monday morning.

equine rhabdomyelosis
equine rhabdomyelosis#English

(veterinary medicine) Synonym of equine rhabdomyelosis


savagnin

Uncertain, but compare French sauvignon.

Oxygen is an accomplice, not a foe, in the production of vin jaune, which is made of the savagnin grape, a Jura staple.

2009 September 23, Eric Asimov, “From Jura, Geeky but Versatile Wines”, in New York Times:

A variety of green grape from the Jura used to make white wine


falanghina

falanghina (countable and uncountable, plural falanghinas)

From Italian falanghina, possibly derived, through Neapolitan, from Latin phalanga (“pole for carrying things”, by extension “pole for sustaining grapevine”), from Ancient Greek φᾰ́λᾰγξ (phắlănx, “line, rank”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, plank”).

der

The light white wine produced with this type of grape.


occabot

He took gayer and more commodious apartments, to suit the taste of the lady, who could not think of any residence not including a complete suite of rooms; his gorg was therefore transformed into eniw, and his occabot into sweet scented sragic.

1826, George Wood, The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 177:

To discover the kind of entertainment, a lad near me and my companion was asked "if there was any flash dancing." With a knowing wink the boy answered "Lots! show their legs and all, prime!" and immediately the boy followed up this information by a request for a "yennep" to get a "tib of occabot."

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the "Penny Gaff", page 41:


Canaiolo

A red Italian wine grape, best known from Tuscany.


epural

Presence of two epurals is the more likely derived condition for stomiiforms based on functional outgroup comparison to Diplophos and Manducus.

1996, Antony S. Harold, “Interrelationships of Stomiiform Fishes”, in Melanie L.J. Stiassny, editor, Interrelationships of Fishes, page 333:

A boney or cartilaginous neural spine on the epural side of a fish's axial column, sometimes supporting fin-rays.


Trollinger

en-noun

Trollinger (countable and uncountable, plural Trollingers)

A grape variety grown predominantly in southern Germany.


pharyngostomy

(medicine, veterinary medicine) Creation of an artificial opening into the pharynx.


Texas tea

Texas tea (countable and uncountable, plural Texas teas)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Texas tea.wav

My car just hit 3,000 so it needs some new Texas tea.

Cowboy Cocktails, such as Jack and Seven, also known as Seven and Seven in the South (Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 and 7UP), Texas Comfort (Southern Comfort and Ginger Ale), Texas Tea (Jack Daniel's and Pepsi, among other ingredients), whiskey/bourbon on the rocks or straight up, and whiskey sours may find their way on to your beverage menu.

2009, Judy Allen, Event Planning, →ISBN:

My poison was Long Island Iced Tea, or Texas Tea.

2011, J. Scott Henderson, White Man, Black Man, Chinese Man: A Synoptic Tale of a True Friendship, →ISBN:

When he returned to his house, both men insisted he take a snort of their Texas tea. He humored them by taking one small sip that sent thunderbolts down his neck, and he becan coughing like a "lunger".

2015, Conn Hamlett, John Lee Johnson: Both Barrels Blazing: Double Trouble, →ISBN:

He's drinking a Texas Tea, running the black straw through the soup of ice cubes and liquor.

2015, Attica Locke -, Pleasantville, →ISBN:

Long Island Iced Tea
Long Island Iced Tea

A variation of Long Island Iced Tea, a highly potent mixed drink made of a variety of alcoholic ingredients, without any actual iced tea.

It gave Mike time to make me some Texas tea.” Martin looked puzzled. “I thought Texas tea was slang for oil.” “It may be. But to Texans like Mike and me, it merely means well-brewed, properly iced tea.”

2005, JoAnna Carl, The Chocolate Mouse Trap: A Chocoholic Mystery, →ISBN:

Kirby paused for a sip of Texas tea, then went on.

2015, Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, →ISBN, page 166:

'Are you smoking ghanja?' 'What?' 'Texas tea, grass, greefo, hay, Mary Jane, pot?' 'Texas tea?' 'Have you been getting blasted?'

2009, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, →ISBN:

Examples of songs about cannabis include "Muggles" by Louis Armstrong, "Reefer Man" by Cab Calloway, "A Viper's Drag" by Fats Waller, 'Viper Mad' by Sidney Bechet, 'Gimme a Reefer' by Bessie Smith, 'When I Get LowI Get High' by Ella Fitzgerald, 'Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea)' by Duke Ellington, 'Texas Tea Party' by Benny Goodman, 'Smoking Reefers' by Larry Adler and 'I'm Felling High and Happy' by Gene Krupa.

2010, Rupert Till, Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music, →ISBN, page 39:

“max, you know i don't smoke.” “this is different.” “What is it?” “gage.” “eh?” “texas tea. mexican spinach. maitland madness. loco weed. indian hemp. gangster. marijuana.”

2011, Peter Doyle, The Devil's Jump, →ISBN, page 51:

San Quentin’s execution logs indicate that, during six of the prison’s eleven lethal injections, the condemned may have been partly conscious; similar findings have led eight states to suspend use of the chemical mixture—sometimes called Texas Tea—employed in most of the death-penalty states, including California.

2007 July 23, Tad Friend, “Dean of Death Row”, in The New Yorker:

“[…] He was from Texas. Short disgusting little prick. Didn't even know what Texas Tea was. So I told him.” Jim pointed his finger toward Helen. “I said it's what you guys use to kill people now that you've stopped frying them faster than potato chips. Sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride. He didn't say a thing. Dickwad. Just got a little smile on his face.”

2013, Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys, New York, NY: Random House, published 2014, →ISBN, page 60:

(slang, US) A mixture of drugs (pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, and sodium thiopental) used to execute a person by lethal injection.


mouth hook

either of a pair of hooked larval mouthparts that function as jaws in some Diptera


syntergite

A structure, in some flies composed of several fused tergites


hart of grease

(hunting, obsolete) A hart of the season when fat.


bitch hound

bitch hounds (plural)
bitchhound (alternative)
bitch-hound (alternative)

Compound of bitch (“female dog”) + hound (“hunting dog”).

compound

A female hound; a bitch used for hunting; a brach.


waterfall bong

An improvised device for smoking cannabis, consisting of a container full of water with marijuana loaded at the top, so that it can be lit as the water drains out the bottom of the container to create a vacuum within the device.


zombie's cucumber

After the baptism, or sometimes the next day, he or she is made to eat a paste containing a strong dose of a potent psychoactive drug, the zombi's cucumber, which brings on a state of disorientation and amnesia.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 187:

“Your soul will answer, you see. And they'll feed you the zombie's cucumber. You ain't got no choice but to eat it.”

2013, Arielle Crowell, Deadly Magnolia, page 210:

It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.

2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 180:

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.


fountain apple moss

The moss was tall, its stems measuring three or four inches, branched and matted together; the leaves were broad and tapering, of a yellow-green colour; and the long fruit-stalks bore large round reddish urns. It was undoubtedly the Fountain Apple moss (Bartramia fontana, fig. 9).

1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses, page 39:

Philonotis fontana, the fountain Apple Moss, is common near springs and in wet places, and has stems 1-6 in., with reddish-black radicles ; leaves ovate-acuminate, short ; nerve almost excurrent ; perigonial leaves, obtuse, nerveless […]

1883, The Microscopical News and Northern Microscopist, volume 3:

Flora in spring reaches of the Po River is represented by species associated with clear waters and constant discharge, including thick cushions of epilithic mosses such as Schleicher's thread-moss (Bryum schleicheri) and the fountain apple-moss (Philonotis fontana) […]

2009, Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, Rivers of Europe, →ISBN:

Philonotis fontana, an epilithic moss in the family Bartramiaceae.


apple moss

en-noun

apple moss (countable and uncountable, plural apple mosses)

Any of various mosses of the genus Bartramia.


smoothcap

Any of various mosses of the genus Atrichum.


hoary fringe moss

Trichostomum (Fringe-moss) is less frequently met with; some species occur in mountainous districts and one, Hoary fringe-moss, we have found on our own heath.

1831, Priscilla Wakefield, An Introduction to Botany, 10th edition, page 224:

The Oval-fruited Fringe moss is peculiar to the hills of Scotland, Wales and Ireland; the Dark Mountain Fringe moss grows on wet rocks by rivulets in similar situations; Slender Mountain Fringe moss prefers exposed places, as does also the Woolly Fringe moss; the Green Mountain Fringe moss favours rocks; and the Hoary Fringe moss is so kind as to grow on this rough wall.

1861, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Mosses, page 21:

R. canescens, the hoary Fringe Moss, is found on sandy heaths and stony places in loose yellowish-green patches […]

1883, The Microscopical News and Northern Microscopist, volume 3, page 66:

Racomitrium canescens, a moss in the family Grimmiaceae.


woolly fringe moss

The typical haunts are the windswept summit plateaux or broad ridges and upper spurs of the higher hills, where short montane grassland, woolly fringe moss carpets, lichen heath, or open stony fell-fields cover most of the ground.

2010, D. A. Ratcliffe, Bird Life of Mountain and Upland, →ISBN, page 191:

Flat ground at the top of Allt Creag an Leth-choin carries prostrate vegetation dominated by woolly fringe moss with some crowberry.

2012, Adam Watson, Human Impacts on the Northern Cairngorms, →ISBN, page 12:

moss of species Racomitrium lanuginosum (family Grimmiaceae).


cowfinch

From cow + finch, after bull in bullfinch.

The cowfinch, for example, simply acquires the song of the lesbian who tends her, whether this lesbian is a cowfinch or not.

1988, S. Baboo, Guide to Gracious Lesbian Living, Lilitha, page 20:

'Do you get cowfinches?' she asked. 'Yup. Cowfinches are a sort of brownish grey, and they eat just as much blossom, but nobody notices because they're so unobtrusive.'

2016, Janet Shepperson, Vinnie's Wilderness, Liberties Press, →ISBN, page 23:


stripleaf

tobacco that has been stripped of the stalks before packing


metapneustic

(zootomy) Having the respiratory apparatus in the anus.


chilam

Alternative form of chillum (“marijuana pipe”)


red bag delivery

red bag delivery (plural red bag deliveries)

Named as such due to the appearance of the placenta surrounding the foal.

The birth of a foal that is still wrapped in the placenta (a case of premature placental separation).


cheelam

cheelam (countable and uncountable, plural cheelams)

(India) An earthen bowl in which tobacco is kept and smoked through its hollow neck.


Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo (usually uncountable, plural Nebbiolos)

Nebbiolos (plural)
nebbiolo (alternative)

/ˌnɛbɪˈəʊləʊ/

Borrowed from Italian nebbiolo, from nebbia (“fog”), after the grapes' appearance.

A fine red wine made near Alba from these grapes.


Longyan

In view of the successful results of the program for the establishment of owner-farmers that had been previously achieved at Lungyen, one of the seven hsien under the 7th Prefecture in Western Fukien Province, the 7th Prefectural Office wanted to implement a similar program in the other six hsien and submitted to JCRR, in January, 1949, a project for land reform and rural reconstruction.

[1954 October, Hui-sun Tang, “The Land Problem and Land Reform in Taiwan”, in Land Reform in Free China, Taipei: China Engraving & Printing Works, →OCLC, page 19:

Xinhua, the official news agency, said that nearly half the children who were tested last week in Longyan City in Fujian Province showed abnormally high levels of lead, which can cause developmental problems in children as well as a host of other ailments, including anemia, stomach pain and brain damage.

2009 September 27, Andrew Jacobs, “Chinese Tests Reveal Lead in Children Near a Plant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-29, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in southwestern Fujian, China.


scolopidium

From Ancient Greek σκόλοψ (skólops, “stake”) + -idium.

af

(zoology) The most fundamental unit of a mechanoreceptor organ in insects


bastard strangles

From bastard (“a variation that is not genuine”) + strangles.

When horſes have either the real or baſtard ſtrangles, or are changing their foal teeth, or are putting out their upper tuſhes, ſome of them have their ſight weak and troubled, [...]

1735, “EYE of a horse”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman’s Companion, in All Rural Recreations: […], volume I, London: Printed for C. Hitch, […], and C. Davis, […]; and S. Austin, […], →OCLC, paragraph 3:

Monſieur Solleyſell, as well as our own Countryman Mr. Markham, has accounted for the Baſtard Strangles in a very odd kind of Manner.

1742, Henry Bracken, “Of the Bastard Strangles”, in Farriery Improv’d: Or, A Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery. […], London: Printed for J. Clarke […]; and J. Shuckburgh […], →OCLC, page 29:

The origin of the term strangles arises from the fact that in some cases it is associated with symptoms of choking or strangulation, and it was divided by the old writers into simple and bastard strangles; the first form being that which ran a regular course, and the second consisting in the formation of multiple or successive abscesses. [...] Irregular or bastard strangles, on the other hand, is a very grave affection, in which the connective tissue of the lymphatics of the submaxillary region, and sometimes the salivary glands, are the seat of acute suppurative inflammation, [...]

1878, William Williams, “Terminations of Inflammation—Continued”, in The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: Wm. Wood & Co. […], →OCLC, page 43:

The most common complication is bastard strangles, metastatic spread of the infection to lymph nodes and organs other than the nodes of the head.

2004, Bonnie Rush, Tim Mair, “Strangles”, in Equine Respiratory Diseases, Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, →ISBN, section III (Contagious Respiratory Diseases), page 164:

Isolation of infected animals can prevent epidemics of strangles and is recommended for new additions to a herd or group. In some horses, purpura hemorrhagica and even bastard strangles may follow vaccination, though this is relatively rare.

2005, Will A. Hadden III, “Head and Neck”, in Cheryl Rogers, G. Jeanne Wilcox, editors, Horseman’s Veterinary Encyclopedia, revised and updated edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 352:

Bastard strangles, in which abscessation develops in many organs, is a serious complication in about 1% of affected animals.

2011, P[atrick] J. Quinn et al., “Streptococci”, in Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, section III (Pathogenic Bacteria), page 192, column 1:

upper respiratory tract
upper respiratory tract

(veterinary medicine) A form of strangles, a bacterial upper respiratory tract infection of horses potentially causing airway obstruction, that has spread to other parts of the body and caused abscesses.

мыт

form of strangles that has spread to other parts of the body


sot-weed

en-noun

sot-weed (countable and uncountable, plural sot-weeds)

sot-weeds (plural)
sotweed (alternative)
sot weed (alternative)

From sot (“a stupified, stupid, inebriated, addicted, or infatuated person”), and weed.

These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo.

1708, Ebenezer Cooke, The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse., "at the Raven in Pater-Noster-Row", London: D. Bragg:

The Sot-Weed Factor [title]

1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:

the effects of smoking sotweed... Depressions would produce modest efforts to diversify the economy but as soon as tobacco prices rose again, planters returned to “sotweed making”.

2010, Henry Miller, “The Lure of Sotweed: Tobacco and Maryland History”, in Slackwater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, volume 3:

John Rolfe toiled over his tobacco plants, spending four years perfecting the cultivation and curing of his “sot weed”

2018, Kate Livie, “The Roots of the “Sot Weed””, in The Star Democrat, retrieved 2018-05-19:


pterygo-

From Ancient Greek πτέρῠγος (ptérŭgos), genitive singular of πτέρῠξ (ptérŭx, “wing”).

pterygoblast, pterygobranchiate

(zootomy) Of or relating to the wing or fin.


moss-grown

en-adj

moss-grown (comparative more moss-grown, superlative most moss-grown)

more moss-grown (comparative)
most moss-grown (superlative)
mossgrown (alternative)

/ˈmɔsˌɡɹoʊn/

From moss + grown. Sense 2 (“old; old-fashioned, out of date”) refers to the fact that moss will often grow on an object that has remained outdoors in one place for some time.

To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.

1838, [Edmund Flagg], chapter XXV, in The Far West: Or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Published by Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 32:

It was reserved for chivalry, embodying the spirit of christianity, to demolish this old, moss-grown bastile of the social state, and restore its captives to freedom, and the rights and prerogatives of freedom.

1840, “Chivalry and the Crusades”, in The American Miscellany of Popular Tales, Essays, Sketches of Character, Poetry, and Jeux d’Esprit, volume II, number 38, London: G. Berger, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; […], →OCLC, page 134, column 1:

The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war. It carried moss-grown laws upon its statute books [...]

1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:

[T]he magnificent young poet [Alfred, Lord Tennyson] of the bust by [Thomas] Woolner in Trinity College Library had grown gradually more like, if never really like, the dim and moss-grown mystic of the painting by [George Frederic] Watts in Trinity College Hall.

1932, “Introduction”, in F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas, compiler, Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An Anthology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page xx:

(figuratively) Old; old-fashioned, out of date.


greenout

en-noun

greenout (countable and uncountable, plural greenouts)

From green + out. Compare English blackout, whiteout.

One of my favourites is 'greenout', for which I only found a single quotation, which is the experience you have when you've been in Antarctica which has very little vegetation, no trees or shrubs, not many smells of the vegetation, and you come back after weeks, months or a year or more to a vegetated place and the warm air is blowing off the continent that you're coming towards and you have a 'greenout' - you're overwhelmed by the sensations.

[2001 June 9, Bernadette Hince, “Antarctic Dictionary (transcript)”, in The Science Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

Maybe a trip to the greenhouse will lessen my feeling of greenout when I go north?

2008 December 10, Mittlefehldt, David "Duck", “The Antarctic search for meteorites: preparations”, in The Planetary Society blog:

(Antarctica) The sensation caused by seeing plants again after a period in Antarctica.


amnioserosa

amnioserosa (plural amnioserosas or amnioserosae)

amnioserosas (plural)
amnioserosae (plural)

(Animal body parts) An epithelium at the dorsal midline of the blastoderm embryo of some insects


ink sac

The ink sac feeds into the rectum, controlled by a sphincter and in some inking events mucus from another organ, the funnel organ is ejected with water and ink through the anus and the siphon to create a cloud of ink.

2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

(zoology) A muscular bag found in certain cephalopods used to generate ink.


endophallus

(zoology) The inner wall of the aedeagus of an insect, derived during embryological development by the fusion of paired genital papillae to form a medial tube. The endophallus is eversible and flexible, is the actual intromittent organ, and sometimes has backward-orientated denticulations to achieve a firm hold on the vaginal walls of the female.


TAD

TAD (countable and uncountable, plural TADs)

(countable, veterinary medicine) Initialism of transboundary animal disease.


living chamber

Although most of the animal's body is in the living chamber, it maintains a slight presence in the phragmocone to control the gas-to-fluid ratio.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 36:

(zoology) The part of a cephalopod's shell which is physically occupied by the animal's body, as opposed to those chambers that serve to provide buoyancy.


shell sac

Baby cephalopods, even octopuses, all have a shell sac, which is comparable to the mantle folds that baby clams and snails use to make their shells.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 115:

(zoology) The sac in which the shell of a mollusc is secreted during development; (now especially) the fold of mantle in which a cephalopod secretes its pen or gladius.


mountain lioness

mountain lioness (plural mountain lionesses)


respiratorium

A gill-like organ used by certain insects to draw water from the air.


cowtail

cowtail (countable and uncountable, plural cowtails)

cowtails (plural)
cow-tail (alternative)
cow tail (alternative)
cow's tail (alternative)

From Middle English *cou-tayl, from Old English cūtæġl (“cowtail”), equivalent to cow + tail.

A coarse wool of low quality, usually shorn from the hind legs of sheep.


tailshield

Trilobites have a distinct headshield or cephalon and a distinct tailshield or pygidium, and in both these regions the original segmentation has been suppressed — more completely in the cephalon than in the pygidium — and [...]

1985, E. W. Nield, Ted Nield, V. C. T. Tucker, Palaeontology, an Introduction:


bubbly-jock

bubbly-jocks (plural)
bubbley-jock (alternative)

(Scotland) A turkeycock (pompous or self-important person).


gynosome

(zoology) A penis-like organ in female Neotrogla.


trumpet flower

Any of several species of flowering plants with trumpet-like flowers

Tecoma stans (yellow bells, yellow trumpet flower, yellow elder)


oowop

(slang) A double blunt (cannabis cigar).


NORML

Similarly, alcohol and tobacco are not scheduled under the CSA. These two substances are descheduled. […] NORML believes that a similar descheduling option – where the federal government and state governments both possess varying degrees of regulatory authority over the production, marketing, and taxation of the product, is appropriate for cannabis.

2019 May 19, “How to End Marijuana Prohibition With Regard to the Controlled Substances Act”, in NORML:

(US) Acronym of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.


bottle jaw

bottle jaw (countable and uncountable, plural bottle jaws)

bottle jaws (plural)
bottlejaw (alternative)

(veterinary medicine) sub-mandibular edema resulting from anemia usually caused by intestinal parasites.


grey hen

Alternative form: greyhen

I heard a grey hen cackling among the ling[.]

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:

That the British Greyhen differs from the typical Scandinavian bird (Lyrurus t. tetrix) has for some years been suspected by Witherby, who has been waiting to obtain sufficient material before coming to a definite conclusion. Recently Lönnberg, on comparing a Scottish killed Greyhen with Swedish birds, also noticed the differences between them.

1913, H.F. Witherby, Einar Lönnberg, “The British Black Grouse”, in British Birds Journal, volume 6, page 270:

Lyrurus tetrix
Lyrurus tetrix#Translingual

A female of the black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix.


Duras

Uncertain. There is no known connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux.

A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.


grass staggers

(veterinary medicine) Synonym of grass tetany


ditch weed

(US) wild marijuana, usually a type used for hemp production, e.g., Cannabis sativa var. sativa.


abligation

abligation (countable and uncountable, plural abligations)

Cecal abligation as a method of control should be mentioned, although the author is not of the opinion that it is a practical and general method which can be adopted for the control of blackhead.

1940, Leland D. Bushnell, Poultry Practice, page 123:

(veterinary medicine, dated) The suturing or tying up of a body part.


index digit

(zootomy) In other animals that digit corresponding to the human index finger.


moon eye

(veterinary medicine) A kind of diseased eye in horses.


armhook

When the partners meet they form armhook with each other, turn around once, let go, and continue the march till they again meet, when they march up into straight flank formation and halt at the end of the stanza.

With a clap the first and second men take right armhook with own ladies, then left with each other, right with own ladies, then left with each other, and retire to the same places as at the finish of part A ;

1915, Elizabeth Burchenal, Folk-dances of Denmark: containing seventy-three dances, page 66:

(folk dancing) A movement in which two people hook arms at the elbow and turn around each other.


brightleaf

From bright + leaf: the leaves turn yellow when heated.

A variety of tobacco that grows well on infertile land.


dokha

From Arabic دَوْخَة (dawḵa, “dizziness”), in reference to the effects of its high nicotine content.

A form of uncured, minimally processed tobacco from the Middle East.


Oriental tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum
Nicotiana tabacum#Translingual

A sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Lebanon, and the Republic of Macedonia.


Turkish tobacco

Oriental tobacco
Oriental tobacco#English


wild tobacco

Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana rustica#Translingual

a very strong tobacco, of species Nicotiana rustica.


FIP

feline infectious peritonitis
feline infectious peritonitis#English

(uncountable, veterinary medicine) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.


castor sac

castor sacs (plural)
castor-sac (alternative)

an organ of a beaver releasing a secretion for refining the animal’s fell, popular in perfumery as under the name castoreum, and formerly in medicine


ram-cat

Tom very gravely replied, that he did suppose the food was wholesome enough, for he had seen the skin and feet of a special ram-cat, new flea'd, hanging upon the door of a small pantry adjoining to the kitchen.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


fetotomy

fetotomy (countable and uncountable, plural fetotomies)

(veterinary medicine) The dissection of a dead unborn calf as an alternative to Caesarean section.


precoxa

A limb segment, proximal to a coxa, in some crustaceans


wingpad

(entomology) The part of a pupa that develops into a wing in the adult insect.


euplantula

(entomology) A broadened variant of the plantula found on the lower surface of the middle tarsomere of an insect's leg which acts as a tarsal attachment point.


toluache

tolguache (alternative)
toloache (alternative)

Any of various poisonous plants of the genus Datura.


winetree

winetrees (plural)
wine-tree (alternative)
vinetree (alternative)

From Middle English wintre, variant of vyne-tre, from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-West Germanic *wīnatreu, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to wine + tree.

The third was clad as though she were wading the wheat-field to the waist, and above was wrapped in the leaves and bunches of the wine-tree.

1890, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains:

They grow in springtime on the bottom part of the winetrees and has^([sic]) to be cut in order to get better quality and quantity of wine.

1900, Andre Arnold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science:

The prince who bought the winetrees, who bestowed priceless gifts—I pity Mumha, which he has left to go into the high tomb of Oirbhealach.

Perhaps apachiras.....etc., were certain groups of trees in the vineyard or some standard of selling the winetrees.

1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute, volume 4, page 216:

One of his followers, a southerner,—sudrmadr, or German, as he is assumed to have been,—having wandered, he reported on his return the discovery of wine-trees and grapes; and hence the name of Vineland, given to the locality.

1981, Sir Daniel Wilson, The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies:

the bats are turning
sated from the winetree
and flap drunkenly homeward […]

1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82:


cannabisseur

Many cannabisseurs or entrepreneurs noticed the gap in the legislative laws passed in the state of Hawai'i and promptly put their own voice into helping these people in need of medical marijuana.

2018, Colin Heacock, "Marijuana: Holistic Medicine or Another Blight on Society?", Fresh Perspectives (Hawai'i Pacific University), Fall 2018, page 54

Many of them, and many of you, are probably cannabisseurs, or why else would you still be reading this?

2018, Shelton Hull, "Giving The Gift Of Green", Folio Weekly, 5 December 2018 - 11 December 2018, page 34

True cannabisseurs own only glass bongs; plastic won't cut it.

2019, Marc Luber, Stuff Every Cannabisseur Should Know, page 83:


feline infectious peritonitis

feline infectious peritonitis (uncountable)

(veterinary medicine) An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).


kadarka

From Hungarian kadarka, from Serbo-Croatian kadarka. Compare Romanian cadarcă.

A dark-skinned variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary.


vinetree

vinetrees (plural)
vine-tree (alternative)
winetree (alternative)

From Middle English vyne-tre (modified after vine (“grapevine”)), from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to vine + tree.

All the dayes of his ſeparation ſhall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels euen to the huſke.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 6:4:

Here note, how Chriſt calleth planely his Cup the fruit of the vinetree; but the fruit of the vinetree is very natural wine[…]

1753, Gloceſter Ridley, “Book VII”, in The Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley ſometime Biſhop of London […] , page 496:

The visible church of God is here compared to the vine-tree, as is evident by God's own explanation of the allegory, in ver, 6–8.

1839, Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings, volume 2, page 125:


heath cock

heath cocks (plural)
heathcock (alternative)


toe bean

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Any of the digital pads on an animal's paw; typically that of a cat or dog.


creamy snuff

creamy snuff (countable and uncountable, plural creamy snuffs)

A paste consisting of tobacco, clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor, sold in a toothpaste tube, and marketed as a dentifrice, allowing the user to ingest nicotine without consuming it via the smoking or chewing of tobacco.


Laika

A female dog who was sent into space by the Soviet Union on November 3, 1957, aboard Sputnik 2. She died in space.


he-bear

A male bear (as opposed to a she-bear, female bear).


apess

Yet, though his limbs with pile were rough, / And though his tail was long enough / […] / Th’ apesses [he] treated with disdain[.]

1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D., London: Hardwicke, Robert, pages 20–21:

I must run over & see you some day. Why not you & Mʳˢ Darwin run over here, when you have finished your Book—you can study my little Apes & Apesses—Kindest regards to Mʳˢ Darwin & thanks for her note—Always yours Affecˡʸ / W D Fox

1870 November 18, William Darwin Fox, letter to Charles Darwin:

Suddenly then he rose, and thinking scorn of his fellows / Longed to be quit of them all, his Apess specially.

1884, The Spectator, volume 57, Poetry. In the Beginning., page 1173:

The second movement, the allegro ironico, is a variation on the well-known theme “Je m’en fous.” An ape-like mockery whinnies through it. Cocoanuts are shied at all the four corners of the world. Some of them display a mysterious tendency to fall near the spot where the apess sits weeping over the children.

1923, Paul Rosenfeld, Musical Chronicle (1917–1923), page 81:

In negroes and in anthropoid apes, the index finger is much shorter than the ring finger. In negresses and in anthropoid apesses, the index finger is often longer.

1939, James Bridie, One Way of Living, page 196:

The apess doesn’t look her age.

1986, Rikki Ducornet, Entering Fire, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 142:

I dunno; do apesses screech more than male orangutans 'n' gorillae?

1998 April 20, Geoff Miller, “Re: The Tuneless Whistler -- a trial of patience!”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), message-ID <geoffmEroyF8.79L@netcom.com>:

[A]pesses do all the child-rearing.

2000, “The Life Cycle” (Part I), in Michèle Plott, Lauri Umansky, editors, Making Sense of Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Collegiate Press, →ISBN, Women Working: Germaine Greer, “Work”, page 201:

She then remarks that some people refer to art as the “apess or ape of nature, because just as the apess greatly imitates the manners of humans, art greatly imitates the works of nature.”

2009, Stephen Perkinson, “Chapter Three: The Vocabulary of Likeness at the Late Fourteenth-Century French Court”, in The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, Conclusion: “Counterfeiting” Nature, ca. 1400, page 186:


Pedro Ximénez

Pedro Ximénezes (plural)
Pedro Jimenez (alternative)
Pedro Jiménez (alternative)
Pedro Ximenez (alternative)

A grape variety grown in several Spanish wine regions


ducklet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


cowlet

—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. “See,” said the young lady, “those two cute little cowlets.” “Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.”

1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:

A lurid lumination lights lithe Laura’s eyes, / (O, tender cowlet, kick the bucket o’er)— / A look of anger and of pained surprise, / A look that ne’er had lit those orbs before.

1888, The Blue and Gold, volume 15, The Light in Laura’s Eyes, page 172:

Separate all cowlets from the cows, as they drink all the milk. Cowlets should be earning their own living.

1913, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 226:

After a short while a thin small cow was released from the gangway leading to the menagerie. Provided with a scarlet cape, Juanito strutted forward towards the scampering cowlet. […] So in vest and black clown’s pantaloons, he provoked the cowlet and played the heavy matador. With all the grand airs of a Bombita Chica or a Montes he advanced to the assault. The dutiful cowlet gave a low. The little cow almost laughed to see such sport.

1932, Wyndham Lewis, Snooty Baronet, Haskell House Publishers Ltd., published 1971, page 201:

Book Agent. Oh, so you are interested in farming? Isn’t that a coincidence? The Everyday Encyclopedia Of Useful Facts included a five-hundred-and-seventy-three-page volume on farm and country life. / Mr. Jordan. (Interested) It does! / Book Agent. It certainly does. I think I have some sample leaflets here. (Opens a briefcase and takes out a pamphlet with some colored pages in it) See! Here is a picture showing a group of contented little cowlets browsing by a babbling brook. / Mr. Jordan. (Puzzled) Cow'''lets? / Book Agent. Yes, little cows. Aren’t they dears? / Mr. Jordan. I thought you said they were cows. / Book Agent. (Laughs) Now, aren’t you the clever one, though?

1934, Boyce Loving, Swappers: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 25:

“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:

YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:

What’s a meta for anyway, I say, if not to mix with chicken lips, cow intestines and pig ganglia, foisted on poor defenseless cowlets held captive in feed lots for a significant portion of their tiny, meaningless lives, destined for the compressed air gun, the hook, and the heavy hammer, and the human Bar-B-Q bun, rotisserie and intestinal villi.

2004, Michael A. Lewis, “Culture”, in Écritage, Arana Gulch Press, published 2010, →ISBN, Endangered Species: January 1, 2004, page 27:


cockfish

cockfish (plural)
cock fish (alternative)
cock-fish (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cockfish.wav

Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption]

2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 23:

A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.

1996, Edgardo E. Di Gitlcomo, Maria Raquel Perier, “Feeding habits of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), in Patagonian waters (Argentina)”, in Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 47, number 6, →DOI, page 801:

A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.

A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.


wolfess

wolfesses (plural)
wolvess (alternative)

From Middle English wolfesse, wolvas, wolvesse; equivalent to wolf + -ess.

Whan the chyldren were now set at the brinke of yᵉ water, by chaunce came a wolfesse out of the nexte mountaynes, which gaue thē soucke, vntil they we∣re founde of the Kynges shepherde, who bringin∣ge them home, toke them hys wyfe to nouryshe.

1550, Iohn Carion, translated by Gwalter Lynne, compiled by Iohn Funcke, The Thre Bokes of Cronicles, Whyche Iohn Carion (a Man Syngularly Well Sene in the Mathematycall Sciences) Gathered wyth Great Diligence of the Beste Authours That Haue Written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine. […], London: […] [S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, […], folio xxv, verso; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man.

“Yes, they got here hours ago, just about the time you went prowling around like a wolf, they were supposed to come tomorrow, but I guess they changed their minds on the date.” / “Wolf, am I?” Jack laughed, taking the hint belatedly. “Well, maybe I am, and you are the wolfess I’m after. Woof, woof, I am coming after you.” / Anna backed away feigning fear, then laughed.

1947, It Started in Ravenswood, page 225:

“Another day in the George Lawrence Empire. Scene, the fox-trot ballroom. Characters, a wolfess aged forty-two and yours truly.” He rolled his eyes like a woman’s. “Tommy, hold me tight, will you honey?” he whispered in the role of the wolfess. Then the woman’s eyes changed into the sly and sad and abandoned eyes of a homo.

1954, Benjamin Appel, Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original, page 64:

In the crowd that welcomed him home, consisting of about eleven creatures, for all the others were hiding under beds, there was a speed-crazy young wolfess, with built-in instantaneous pickup ability, and in no time at all the wolf and his new-found mate were setting new records for driving upside down, backward, blindfolded, handcuffed, and cockeyed, doubled and redoubled.

1956, The New Yorker, page 28, column 3:

Allyn Ann McLerie slinks skillfully as cat and wolfess; Richard Hayes struts smoothly as “The Stork Who Married a Dumb Wife;” Kaye Ballard unleashes her lush voice, and Bert Convy and Nancy Haywood exploit their youthful vitality in numerous guises.

1963, New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews, page 327, column 3:

To prove the truth of his story, the werewolf, “using his claw as a hand, drew off the pelt from the head of the wolfess and folded it back even as far down as the navel, whereupon there was plainly to be seen the body of an old woman.”

1971, Daniel Cohen, A Natural History of Unnatural Things, page 46:

The dispute between Romulus and Remus, resulting in the death of Remus at the hands of Romulus, purportedly took place during their search for a new city-site to be situated near the place where they were suckled and saved by a wolfess when abandoned as infants.

1973, Roman Art in West Coast Collections, page 49:

Once upon a time there was a pretty young wolfess who was happy and carefree. She liked to flirt with all the young wolves, go to rabbit runs, and sleep till noon. She enjoyed all the nice things that young, carefree wolfesses do.

1979, David Knox, Exploring Marriage and the Family, page 45:

Ahead was a huge door to a walk-in safe, tucked behind in a long, partitioned desk and guarded by a pretty, prim-looking white wolfess in a Politzi-like ALPHA uniform. / Janoah walked over and exchanged salutes. The safe door was ajar, to her surprise. / “Who’s in there?” she demanded of the white wolfess.

2017, Adam Browne, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications:


she-crab

For quotations using this term, see Citations:she-crab.

A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, especially an immature one (as contrasted with a sook).


epizootic hemorrhagic disease

epizootic hemorrhagic disease (uncountable)

epizootic haemorrhagic disease (alternative)

Bluetongue symptoms in white-tailed deer are identical to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD).

1981, Bluetongue: A Threat to U.S. Exports, U.S. Department of Agriculture, unnumbered page:

Other species, including pronghorns and mule deer, sometimes are infected, but epizootic hemorrhagic disease is most evident in white-tailed deer.

2003, Eric G. Bolen, William Laughlin Robinson, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Prentice Hall, page 138:

Odocoileus virginianus
Odocoileus virginianus#Translingual

A disease, often fatal, of wild ruminants, most notably white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), caused by Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus transmitted by certain midges, especially the species Culicoides variipennis.


catess

I merely add that after a short acquaintance between the Monkey and the Lioness, a Cat and Catess made their appearance to the great surprise and no small scandal of the whole social circle.[…]Anubis, worshipped since under the name of Mercury, was transformed into a Dog; Diana, who according to a learned Orientalist, is the same as the Egyptian Isis, took the form of a handsome Cat, or rather Catess.

1852, Charles Hale, editor, To-day, a Boston Literary Journal, volume I, Boston: Redding and Co., pages 147, 165:

Besides the animals of the neighbourhood, for whom Madame Ahavzi kept open table on certain days, she kept of her own two cats and four catesses, which she took a great deal more care of than if they had been human beings.

1873, Stories from Over the Sea, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 160:

No one could dream for a moment that any respectable and well brought up catess could be attracted by such a fearful storm of profanity and discord. We blush to write it, but duty is duty—cats swear! We know that they are peculiarly susceptible to perfumes and music, and it is quite opposite to their nature to believe that such discordant discords would be uttered by any cat, unless in extreme agony.

1882, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art, volume 18, page 148, column 1:

Now are the wild, weird songs of night / Borne to us through the open lattices, / And wake us up in sore affright— / Some are cats and some are catesses. / — St. Paul Herald.

1884, Life, volume 4, page 28, column 2:

‘Rather than marry a gentleman like that,’ the girl continued recklessly, ‘I will be an old maid, and pass my life with cats and catesses.’ / This was girl-phrasing in the style of Richardson’s ‘dogs and dogesses’; not that the girl here speaking had ever read a line of Richardson, but that she spoke the language which that novelist was so industrious in gathering from girls’ lips.

1899, Christabel R. Coleridge, Arthur Innes, editors, The Monthly Packet, page 161:

The programme of entertainment for Gideon’s Band at Spokane bore the following bright lines: / Dear Kittens, CATS and CATesses, from cities far and near, / A conCATenated welcome we extend to you while here.

1903, Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, The Bulletin, “Cat-ode.”, page 77:

Mr. Kenneth Clarke: Oh, tish tish. That’s utterly pre-Pappa-You-Done-Yo-Sugar-Mama-Wrong-poserous. [general laughter] Oh, I see. Ka-boom tish. A joke. Very good, splap splap but seriously, wabbeda wabbeda look. All the political cats and catesses know me. I’m a moderate. I’m not from the hanging and flog bog ga-dogging wing of the party.

2011, Ian Martin, The Coalition Chronicles, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

There was a handsome ginger cat at the steering wheel wearing a magnificent white coat, a scarf and goggles, and next to him a pure grey catess in a frilly white dress and bonnet.


thiobutabarbital

From thio- (“containing sulfur”) + secbutabarbital.

af

(pharmacology, veterinary medicine) A short-acting barbiturate derivative (trademark Inactin) which has sedative, anticonvulsant and hypnotic effects and is used in veterinary medicine for induction in surgical anesthesia.


mesoptile

(biology) one of the second set of down feathers (in those birds that have two sets)


climacium

Any of the genus Climacium of tree mosses


tree moss

(biology) A moss (or possibly a lichen) that grows on trees


pine-moss

en-noun

pine-moss (countable and uncountable, plural pine-mosses)

"You must then make yourself a wig of pine-moss and go up to the king's palace, which is close by; there you must ask for service."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 221:

Any species of moss that grows on pine trees.


snuff-horn

When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:

A container for snuff made from an animal's horn.


polytrichon

A European moss, great golden maidenhair or great goldilocks, Polytrichum commune


gastric mill

gastrointestinal tract
gastrointestinal tract

An organ in the gastrointestinal tract of some animals, particularly crustaceans, which contains dentition, that is used to grind food. The gnashing of the teeth/plates in the mill is also used by some of the creatures to create audible growling, as a form of communication.


frogess

frogesses (plural)
froggess (alternative)

Do Frogs like children? I am not terribly convinced they do. Before I get pelted with tomatoes by indignant Frogesses, could I simply ask you to draw your own conclusion from the large number of abusive terms used to describe children? Our “brats” is nothing compared with the variety of French names that have the same meaning but are too often used instead of “kids.”

1986, Genevière Edis, ““Le Français méprise la jeunesse””, in Merde Encore!: More of the Real French You Were Never Taught at School, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, published 1998, →ISBN, chapter X, “Allons enfants”, page 82:

— I go on. To Dover and then take ship for France. / — God help us, you are indeed up. That sounds like state business. / — War on the papists. / — For God’s sake leave at least the English papishes alone, they have suffered enough. There is enough trouble here with the frogs and frogesses. The little froglings would grow up into proper Kent citizens if they were permitted to speak our tongue.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, part one, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 37:

‘What would it involve?’ / ‘Living off the fat of the land in my room at the château. Local wine with meals twice a day. Unlimited. Lunch and dine with the director, an old army chap called Bagnolet, who’s got an English wife, Lucy. And the students of course.’ / ‘But the work?’ / ‘Nothing to it. Conversation in English all day with frogesses from the very best families. It’s a finishing school for girls – and you’re not to touch them.’

2007, Oliver Stanley, Hotel Victoire, Sussex, England: Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:

(rare, offensive) A female frog (French person).


elephantess

I wish I could dash off a sketch of her stupendous majesty the great elephantess, with the clumsy little prince royal, the calf elephant, as they appeared when enjoying themselves in their bath; and of his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.

1854, Grace Greenwood [pseudonym; Sara Jane Lippincott], chapter III, in Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 54:

It was now time to bring new actors upon the stage, that the proverbial influence of the female sex might be tested upon these wild and untamed leviathans. Among the elephantesses—pardon the word—employed on this occasion was one named Siribeddi, which had earned a reputation for her skill as a decoy, and now did her best to justify that reputation.

1873, W[illiam] H[enry] Davenport Adams, “The Elephant: His History and Habits”, in The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, London: T Nelson and Sons, […], page 360:

Now, it chanced that there dwelt in the same Forest a young Elephantess, who perceived that the Kitten was copping the cash, and had all the other Female Animals so Faded they looked like a Shirt Waist fresh from a Chinese Laundry.[…]Being a thoughtful Creature, however, the Elephantess did not knock her rival’s game, but began to study the Kitten’s system, to see if there was not a soft spot where she could butt into the money.

1902, Dorothy Dix [pen name; Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], “The Elephantess who Tried to be Cute”, in Fables of the Elite, New York, N.Y.: R. F. Fenno & Company, […], pages 155–156:

Elephantesses should be employed to decoy stupid and amorous wild elephants into the trap (1—4).[…]Similarly, a fifty thousand libations, consisting of sesamum seeds and clarified cow-butter, would stamp out an epidemic affecting the bipeds only, whereas the ceremony should be repeated at the breaking out of a pestilential disease, or on the occasion of elephantess developing a pair of tusks, and portending evil to the state. The evil consequences of an elephantess, exuding serum from her temple, would be warded off by a Homa of ten thousand libations, whereas an epidemic of miscarriages of the womb, or of deaths of new-born infants in a community, would prove amenable to a similar Homa, consisting of as many libations (10—13).

1904, Manmatha Nath Dutt, transl., A Prose English Translation of Agni Puranam, volume II, Calcutta: […] H. C. Das, Elysium Press, […], pages 1057 and 1195–1196:

The elephantess of Udena runs in the sand like lightning.[…]Elephants wander in the forest with elephantesses.

1942, D. G. Koparkar, English Guide to C. V. Joshi’s Manual of Pāli, Oriental Book Agency, pages 4 and 6:

“Behold here the damsels of Vidyádharas, are waiting for you with fans and wreaths of flowers in their hands; and they have been hailing and inviting you to them, as the young elephantess, entices the big elephant towards her.”

1978, The Yoga-Vásishtha-Mahárámáyana of Válmiki, Bharatiya Publishing House, page 991:

Let us decorate an elephantess, give a garland in its trunk and, take her in the garden.[…]Sajjan was made to seat on the same elephantess.

1983, Upadhyay Shri Pushkar Muni, edited by Shree Devendra Muni, Punyano Prabhav, Ahmedabad: Shree Laxmi Pustak Bhandar, pages 145–146:

Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.”

1986, Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page xvii:


gorilless

The last statement suggests to me the question, did she walk upon her hind legs only, or upon all four? That is, did she walk erect like a man and a brother,—I should say a gorilless and a sister,—or like an attached and humble individual of the canine or feline quadruped species?[…]Was not Seraphine a wonderful young person,—I mean gorilless?

1861 September 30, “Paterfamilias”, “Gentle Gorilla–Wither Away. To the Editor of Fun.”, in Fun, published 12 October 1861, page 39, columns 1–2:

“An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”

1923 December, Volney G. Mathison, “The Woman-Handler”, in Radio, volume V, number 12, pages 68 and 70, column 3:

I know it’s horribly sexist but, it has to be said, so are gorillas. / Then there’s the lonely gorilless whose mate has died just before breeding time, leaving both her and her devoted keeper desolate with grief.

1985, Maureen Lipman, “Lipmanish Allthouthts^([sic])”, in How Was It for You?, Clio Press, published 1989, section “A Joking Aside”, page 186:

On another day, at the Program Corporation of America, a White Plains-based company that serves as lecture managers and booking agencies for celebrities, the gorilla was invited to stay for lunch. “You’re a “gorilless,” Joan Steinhaus, executive vice president, said as Miss Corsetti removed the head of her costume. “Would you like a banana?”

1985 March 31, Lynne Ames, “About Westchester; Listening Device”, in The New York Times, page 2:

She wanted a job with Phyllis the Gorilless.

2016, CJ Verburg, “Lovely Rita”, in Zapped: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery, Boom-Books, →ISBN:


paludiculture

From Latin palus (“swamp”) + cultūra (“cultivation, agriculture”).

These diverse options for biomass from paludiculture show its great potential for future circular bio-economy applications.


lingual nerve

(neuroanatomy, zootomy) A sensory branch of the mandibular nerve that supplies the mucous membrane of the anterior two thirds of the tongue and the floor of the mouth and responds to stimuli of pressure, touch, and temperature.


viperess

A female viper (snake, or treacherous/malignant person)


bearess

As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of bearers and bearesses strung out behind me like the tail of a kite, anything from a tea-tray to the sugar tongs being sufficient excuse for joining the parade.

1912, Frances Little, The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 60–61:

Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.

1968 April 3, “Greencastle Girl Marries In Arlington, Virginia”, in The Morning Herald, volume XCIV, number 80, Hagerstown, Md.:

Some aggressively degenerate Chinese emperors and noblemen used to make a spectacle of their comely female sedan-chair bearers. (Perhaps properly: bearesses or she-bears or bearpersons.)

1975 December 18, “Tourists main client of China’s dwindling rickshaws”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 33, column 5:

Ring bearess and flower girl were Emily and Elizabeth Goldeman.

1995 September 19, “Musgrave — Johnson”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 6A, column 3:

On the other hand, we must say that what distinguishes this “concreteness” is the essential, originary distinction between the “physical” person (the bearer, or bearess of the philosophical discourse) and his or her truly being a philosopher.

2007, Romano Màdera, Vero Luigi Tarca, “Philosophical Practices as the Valorization and Care for “Beautiful People””, in Philosophy as Life Path: An Introduction to Philosophical Practices, Milan: IPOC di Pietro Condemi, translation of La filosofia come stile di vita: Introduzione alle pratiche filosofiche, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

Natalie Ambrusko of Tonawanda, NY was a ring bearess; Katherine Ambrusko of Pittsburgh, PA and Audrey Kefor of Glastonbury, CT were flower girls, all three are cousins of the bride

2007 December 2, “Hill - Ackers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 3I, column 2:

The bridesmaids gestured that it was time for the rings and Elizabeth, who was apparently the ring bearess, rose to the occasion.

2014, Sam Harris, “Promises”, in Ham: Slices of a Life, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 17:


otic ganglion

glossopharyngeal nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve

lesser petrosal nerve
lesser petrosal nerve

auriculotemporal nerve
auriculotemporal nerve

(neuroanatomy, zootomy) A small parasympathetic ganglion that is associated with the mandibular nerve, situated near the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone, receives preganglionic fibers from the glossopharyngeal nerve by way of the lesser petrosal nerve, and sends postganglionic parasympathetic fibres to the parotid gland by way of the auriculotemporal nerve.


sinus venosus

sinus venosi (plural)
venous sinus (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin sinus vēnōsus (“venous hollow”).

ubor

(zootomy) The first chamber of the heart in fish, amphibians, and reptiles, emptying into the right atrium.


mud fever

Synonym of bluecomb (“coronaviral enteritis in turkeys”)


Robola

He began to notice that a large amount of Robola was accumulating, and he expostulated to himself, ‘What? Do they all think I'm a drunk?’

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 38:

A variety of grape, chiefly grown on the island of Cephalonia, or the white wine which is made from it.


Olivette

St. Louis County
St. Louis County#English

A municipality of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.


swaness

One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan. She makes a lovely mother! She and the cat are our ideal earthly types of the maternal relation. The mere human mother is an awkward thing alongside either of these creatures. To see the swan with her gray cygnets sailing about is not much more in itself than if she were a goose and goslings; but when she takes a mind to give the little things a ride, then we see riding pic-a-back “elevated,” as the newspapers say of circus-riding, “to the rank of a Fine Art.”

1873, “Central Park”, in Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 685, column 2:

On Thursday we go down to Celbridge, where with memories of Swift and the wretched and foolish Vanessa and in company with a beautiful swan and swaness, which bring their babies to the lawn to be admired and duly fed, I am going to rest and recuperate for the next five weeks and try to remember out of this awful time only the kindness and sympathy that has been shown to us by so many Irish friends.

1916, Mrs. Hamilton Norway [i.e., Mary Louisa Norway], The Sinn Fein Rebellion as They Saw It, pages 98–99:

It was in June, 1922, while Bill was making his toilet that there came out of the west, and landed nearby, one of the most beautiful swanesses that you ever saw. From her dress and appearance, she was some high born lady. Bill was rather surprised when he discovered the visitor, and naturally, he called on her and displayed courtesy that only a swan can show.

1923 May 17, John Thomson, “Bard of Avon Pens Love Letter For Disconsolate Bachelor Swan: Mayor Thomson Seeks Aid Aid of Commissioner Pittenger For Old Bill, Badly Beaten After Attempt to Steal One of Bamford’s Harem Beauties”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, thirty-seventh year, number 117, Asbury Park, N.J., page 9, column 2:

To the four very willing swanesses of Egypt, Mass., Gloomy Gus, the wan swan from California, is just a pain in the neck. And a pain in a swan’s neck is a long, long pain. Trouble is: Gus hasn’t made passes at any of the lasses. Grieving ever since the death of his mate, with whom he used to navigate Forest Lawn’s lake, Gus was flown east this week in hopes that he would find a new mate in one of four maiden swans at the Chase Bird farm in Egypt, near Boston.

1947 April 19, “Non-Necking Swan Swain Pain In Neck of Unpecked Swanees”, in Valley Times, volume XI, number 94, North Hollywood, Calif., page 2, column 5:

“[…]You were bored anyway and you started drinking and then there were the women. All those ‘we’re just good friends’ women.” “Oh, for God’s sake, Deborah, stuff like that, it’s not important. Can’t you understand? What’s a man supposed to be? Some goddamn swan that mates once for life?” “A lot of men do and you can bet it’s what the swaness prefers.”

1976, Ilka Chase, Dear Intruder, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 5:


duckess

Coordinate term: drake

But the thrust that got Eustace in the pin feathers was: “I know why you’re such a model drake,—it’s because your wife is the only duckess in the barnyard.” “Not at all!” he replied. “The principles for which I stand are absolute. They would be the same if there were a hundred duckesses besides Gertrude!”

1920, Lawton Mackall, “Beyond the Paling”, in Scrambled Eggs, Stewart & Kidd Company, page 37:

And here come Sophie and her four offsprings which we have been unable thus far to segregate into ducks and duckesses. Manchester, the biggest of the lot, makes a specialty of pecking at my shoelaces.

1938 September 17, “From the Editor’s Easy Chair”, in Welford Beaton, editor, Hollywood Spectator, thirteenth year, volume 13, number 17, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Mental Meanderings”, page six, column 2:

Harold does not like to shoot little ducks and duckesses himself, but he got some swell camera shots of some of his friends in action.

1953, The Fortnightly Review of the Chicago Dental Society, page 18, column 2:

Three duckesses had fluffy, little broods parading along behind, ready to claim their waterfront real estate as soon as the ice stopped being ice.

2012, Robert L. Payne, A Side Order of Truth, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 481:


moosette

How wondrous it must be to travel and migrate in a whole herd of mooses and moosettes and go anywhere besides up and down and round and round like a painted pony on a carousel.

2013, Bernie L. Calaway, 101 Fun Fables, page 43:


head pressing

(veterinary medicine) The condition, in certain mammals, of pressing the head or face against a wall or into a corner for no apparent reason, usually a sign of neurological disorder.


giraffess

Fable of the Giraffess / Once there was a Beautiful Giraffess, who was Presented at Court. Her Costume was the Limit, and King Lion was much struck by her Beauty and Charm. “I am Delighted to see you,” he said to the Beautiful Giraffess, “but where is your Husband? Was he not also Commanded to Come?” “Yes, Your Majesty,” answered the Beautiful Giraffess, “but he had to Pay so Much Money for my Low-Necked Dress that he could not afford to Buy a Collar for Himself.”

1902 May 4, The Pittsburg Press, volume 19, number 123, Pittsburg, Pa.:

The tongue of a giraffe is two feet long according to a late authority. He probably didn’t dare mention the length of a giraffess’ tongue.

1907 February 14, The Brewton Standard, volume XX, number 36, Brewton, Ala.:

The “giraffesses” gaily sport / Their yellow polka dots / While all the lady zebras shine / In stripes, instead of spots.

1913, J[ohn] H. Cradlebaugh, Nyeena Kloshe Illahee (Songs of the Good Country), Portland, Or.: Press of F. W. Baltes and Company, page 61:

Now we’re not the type to quarrel with facts and it may be that baby giraffes sometimes are six feet tall at birth (if so, if we were a giraffess, we certainly would be a bachelor girl giraffess, we think.)

1954 December 13, Ollie M. James, “Just The Facts, Sir and Ma'am”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 114th year, number 248, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 4:

New Giraffess Named Sudan / It’s a girl, Honolulu Zoo Director Paul Breese announced yesterday after the sex of the baby giraffe born to Twiga on Monday had been determined.

1962 March 22, The Honolulu Advertiser, 106th year, number 53,667, Honolulu, Haw., page B1:


delta female

The alpha female moves through the tree and sits next to the delta female; she reaches for her infant, but the delta female turns her back.

1968 June, Frank E. Poirier, “The Nilgiri langur (Presbytis johnii) mother-infant dyad”, in Primates, volume 9:

It is interesting to note in this regard that the alpha female slapped the beta female, but only displayed toward the delta female.

The beta female approaches the delta female who sits with an infant at her chest.

2013, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, page 308:

A female animal that ranks fourth in the social hierarchy.


spiritrompe

Borrowed from French spiritrompe, from Latin spira (“spiral”) + French trompe (“trumpet, trunk (of an elephant)”)


muckna

mucknas (plural)
makhna (alternative)
mukna (alternative)

(India) A male elephant whose tusks are absent or rudimentary.


cannabev

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Jardin explains that the company’s non-infused offerings work well in both the lucrative carbonated water market and as brand awareness for when AAA Medic enters the cannabev space.

2019 May 7, Midas Letter Live, “AAA Medic Montreal Inc Receives Health Canada License for Industrial Outdoor Grow Site”, in Midas Letter, archived from the original on 2021-12-25:

But beyond it being easier to sip on cannabis than smoke a joint, there are many other reasons that people are loving cannabevs.

2019 November 20, Aleah Radovich, “Why Cannabis Drinks Are All the Hype Right Now”, in Dixie Brands:

You want the high but without the smoke or the delayed drop that comes with eating an edible. What’s the best method for your cannabis consumption? Look no further than CannaBevs, or cannabis beverages. Over the past 12-24 months, the market for CannaBevs has exploded, so here we’ll explore what juice is worth the squeeze.

2021 April 26, ecocanndev, “Which CannaBevs Are Worth It?”, in ECO Cannabis, archived from the original on 2021-12-25:

The nascent cannabev category only represents about 1% of total cannabis sales through the dispensary channel.

2021 September 10, Julia Gray, “The cannabis beverage market is bubbling with brands”, in Morning Brew:

Prohibition of Interstate cannabis commerce and the lack of state-by-state bottling plant manufacturing contracts currently hinder national launches of cannabevs.

2021 December 26, Sara Brittany Somerset, “7 Uplifting THC Drinks for the Holidays”, in Cannabis & Tech Today:

A drink infused with tetrahydrocannabinol.


babuina

From New Latin, feminine of babuinus, from French babouin.


newy

Lets go to Newy for a skate


splayleg

(agriculture, veterinary medicine) A disease of pigs in which the legs are splayed because of a myopathy.


coon dick

From coon + dick. For the alcohol, the term was coined and used during the prohibition era of the 1930s, referring to how African Americans illegally transported it in the crotch of their pants.

coondick (alternative)
coon-dick (alternative)

"Oh, you want to see this," says the boy. “It's a coon dick.” A tiny, leathery hit of tissue on a length of blue yarn is swung in Joel's face.

They were leading a discussion about coon dicks, the penises of raccoons made into necklaces and worn for good luck.

2018, Robert Gordon, Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown:

Ya must gotta a lucky 'Coon's Dick' in ya pocket, man. Or, ya got's-ta be cheatin', or somethin', damn!”

2018, William A. James Sr., Hard Times and Survival:

The penis bone of a raccoon, typically used as a toothpick or good luck charm.


Indian feather moss

en-noun

Indian feather moss (plural Indian feather mosses)

From Indian + feather + moss, thus called because the calyptra of the plant allegedly resembles the feather in some Native American headdresseshttp://floranorthamerica.org/Timmia_megapolitana_subsp._megapolitana

moss of the species Timmia megapolitana.


yelt

Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Compare gilt.

A young sow who has not yet had a litter.


cow-mother

A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

(religion) A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.


dicranid

Any bryopsid moss of the subclass Dicranidae, of the class Bryopsida.